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Friday, May 9, 2014

The Schwalm piece is finished

The Schwalm stitching is finished, and a slight hitch arose when the blue pattern done by someone I don't know, refused to rinse out. I suspect they may have inadvertently used indelible pencil instead of rinse out pencil. Anyway, here it is after:

There is a distinct blue tinge, a blue area among the
finest stitches. The blue bled a bit but the Oxyclean did lift the bleed
and some random blue marks, too. In person, the blue shows, but I see it seems to vanish in the photo. Click to see better.

At this point I am deciding whether
to simply dye the whole thing, or some other thing. It seems not
willing to be the pure white on pure white which was the idea, for me at
least.

The teacher of the project has been very eager to help fix it,
and is dismayed, since the kits were created for her and shipped, and I
am guessing she also assumed the blue would rinse out.Meanwhile, I have another design I created, which I will make up for an invitation show in July, and I plan to do Schwalm work on this so I have another shot at it. I'll buy a wash out pencil to transfer it onto the linen, though.

On the good side, I did learn to do this introductory Schwalm work, and really liked the drawn threadwork and the needleweaving parts. And this is without doubt at this point, the cleanest piece of needlework I ever did!

5 comments:

I have always been leery of those pencils - even the ones that are touted as being washable and/or fadeable. I've heard too many horror stories about the marks reappearing even years later. How disappointing that these won't come out. On the bright side - your embroidery looks wonderful!

what a shame re the blue, I now use colour catchers when I wash my work and I wash my fabrics before I make them into quilts etc, amazing how much colour comes out of some. Do hope the tips the help as it is such a beautifully piece